Press release, March 25th 2009
D:LIGHT
This exercise in style gives the full measure of the company's savoir-faire, its creativity and its insatiable taste for innovation. It is an ambitious project which resulted in an avant-garde timepiece, “D:Light”. For this first edition, Nathalie Colin called upon the creative talent of renowned and audacious watch designer Eric Giroud.
The futuristic “D:Light” model offers a new vision of the concept of time, merging new electronic technologies with jewellery design. This futuristic timepiece has already established a place for itself as a reference among contemporary design and succeeds as nothing else could in highlighting time.
Artistically fashioned in super fine steel, this original design brings together the functions of emotion-creating watch, bracelet and collector's item. Its rectangular dial is a real crystal screen, designed by Swarovski featuring 171 exclusive Xilion-cut crystals; the transparency of its setting maintains the mystery of time.
As if by magic, the time appears with a simple touch on the Swan cabochon. The crystals change colour, light up, sparkle and show the hours and minutes in luminous orange dotted lines. No date, no hands, just a 12- or 24-hour clock function. Its gold-tone steel bracelet with the wide faceted, polished links and butterfly clasp ensure it is reversible so it can be worn on the left or right hand.
The “D:Light” watch links refined aesthetics with an exceptional watch movement which was under exclusive development for several years by Swarovski.
D:LIGHT
Hiding an induction system, a stylish white charging dock enables the watch to fully recharge in three hours and should then remain charged for a month. Set on the dock, the timepiece transforms itself yet again and becomes a design piece.
An original, contemporary expression, the playful and functional “D:Light” preserves the mysteries of time.
